USH'S MATRIX GAME FOURTH ASSIGNMENT (PHILOSOPHY PATH)- 'The Journey'

"Not necessarily. We can't remove our skin. Although I suppose we could" Azrael thinks for a few moments "Yes, you are indeed correct."

"Yes," says Melitus, "I do not mean they cannot as in it is physically difficult/impossible... I mean it is a choice they are simply incapable of making."

"Okay. I can see why it is easier to have non-sentients(?) working for you, but surely it increases the danger. What if they were hacked?"

"Nothing that is coded in this place happens without my consent," says Melitus. "Also, there are considerable practical problems in operating large amounts of artificial intelligences, that you should be aware of..."

Originally posted by Ushgarak
"No," says Melitus. "Each other. Or, at the very least, yourself..."

That was just sentience he was referring to, Rade. The free will thing was just him trying to gauge your opinions again.

"Fair enough. I wonder how you keep your existance from the other machines."

"It would be very difficult if all my staff were AIs," says Melitus. "The problem is that AIs require great amounts of power to operate. There is only so much available to me.

"But these are only staff I use for domestic reasons. The Xiao Emo was not created by me and he is very much sentient."

Ah. You have found an almost unused area and cannabilised it to your needs then?"

OOC
He means of code...

"Suffice to say that this area is safe," says Melitus. "Enough about me. There will be plenty of time for that later. Please proceed through the door behind you."

Azrael walks through the door, waiting for the others on the other side.

walks through the door

You are standing in a void of pure nothingness, only each other visible to yourself and a door behind you.

"Hmm.....what is this?"

Like the loadout room?

"Interesting..."

"There are some who would say this is the ultimate point of existence," says Melitus.

"Nothing? Or would it be peace?"

Is it like the room, or do our eyes see nothing?

In the area in front of you you are receiving no sensory input at all. That is actually easily done in the Matrix- far more so than in the real world! All that has to be done is a scenario designed where your sight does not work in an area.

"Nothingness," says Melitus.

yes, what about it

So it's like being blind?

Azrael walks around a bit.
"And surely to create that would be to let yourself be 'deleted'?"